Double Exposure: Drawings by Tricia Sellmer, Poems of Alexander Forbes
Gallery Catalogue
Kamloops: Cunliffe House Gallery/Kamloops Arts Council; Burnaby: Cap-`a-Pie, 2004
ISBN: 0-9730315-2-2
Soft cover (5.5"x8.5"); 16 pages including introduction and 10 plates in black and white, and colour.
“There is much to see in Double Exposure - a collaborative exhibit that unites free verse with black-and-white drawings on papers in grid formats. Avoiding the well-worn commonplaces that so frequently surround roses, both Sellmer and Forbes look at these complex flowers from unusual perspectives. Lurching flower petals, petals drooping, reminiscences of colour, thorns exposed . . . .”
Constance Brim, from the Introductionfrom Double Exposure:
rose hips
After the petals the thorns
but also the rose hips -
which recapitulate
the rosebush, summarising
its emblazoned folio in
portable and serviceable
duodecimo, But if they
reiterate, they must also rejoin:
for which reasonrose hips are petals,
and rose hips are thorns.
